How To disable copy and paste operations between the guest operating system and remote console ?
Posted by Preetam on June 5, 2007
How To disable copy and paste operations between the guest operating system and remote console ?
- Log on to the VI Client and select the virtual machine from the inventory panel.
- The configuration page for this virtual machine appears with the Summary tab displayed.
- Click Edit Settings.
- Click Options > Advanced > Configuration Parameters to open the Configuration
- Parameters dialog box.
- Click the Add button
Type the following values in the Name field Value column.
Name Field Value Field
isolation.tools.copy.enable false
isolation.tools.paste.enable false
isolation.tools.setGUIOptions.enable false
The result appears as follows.
Click OK to close the Configuration Parameters dialog box and then click OK
again to close the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box.
Disabling Copy Paste – The PowerCLI way said
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Pete Long (@PeteNetLive) said
You can also directly edit the .vmx file 🙂
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